In the 1990's, the generation of horror movie public who lived through the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties, on movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", (Tobe Hooper, 1974); "The hills have eyes", (Wes Craven, 1977); and "A nightmare on Elm Street", (Wes Craven, 1984), created a sense of fear that was diluted across America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Asia; by nineteen ninety-one to nineteen ninety-five, there was the rise of horror books and movies like "Ringu", ("The Ring", (1998), and the phenomenon of Japanese terror films dominated the decade, which were re-made in America during the '00's.
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Casey Becker, (Drew Barrymore), is terrorized by a phone caller who likes horror movies...Wes Craven's "Scream", 1996, written by Kevin Williamson.***
Jason X, written by Todd Farmer, and directed by Jim Issac, is set in the future. When Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), and another woman are cryogenically frozen in time, they're thawed out of their prison, and the killer continues going on a rampage. The film has its share of robots and scientists with characters' names from Sir Ridley Scott's cult science fiction/horror hybrid second movie called "Alien", (1979); David Cronenberg also has an acting role as "Doctor Wimmer", who is killed. The actors are: Rowan, (Lexa Doig); Kay-Em-14, (Lisa Ryder); Professor Lowe, (Jonathan Potts); Dallas, (Farmer)*Actor Tom Skerritt plays 'Dallas' in 'Alien*; Azreal, (Dov Tiefenbach); Janessa, (Melyssa Ade); and Tsunaron, (Chuck Campbell). There's a VR section of the movie in which the scientists go back to 1980, where several girl campers make out before Jason attacks them. In short, the scene ends with Jason being killed, and ending in him being re-made as "Uber-Jason".
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The new version of Jason Voorhees in the 25th century, (sorry, no Buck Rogers to save the day), limps along with the end. If fans thought it was The End of the saga they were wrong.
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